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The Ulster Unionist Party’s sports spokesperson, Leslie Cree MLA, has urged football clubs at all levels of the game across Northern Ireland to participate in the consultation on the Sub-Regional Stadia Programme which was announced...

General, Europe

Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson has welcomed the news that PEACE IV has formally been adopted by the European Commission and urged that the lessons from previous rounds of the programme are learned to maximise...

General

Ulster Unionist Party Leader Mike Nesbitt MLA has expressed his sadness at the passing of Father Gerry Reynolds.
Mr Nesbitt said:
“I knew him from my days in journalism when he was a vocal and visible member of...

General

Councillor Trevor Wilson, Chairperson of the Ulster Unionist Councillors Association, has stated that the DUP/Sinn Fein coalition's obsession with holding on to power at all costs is the real reason behind Mervyn Storey's failure to...

General

Ulster Unionist Deputy Mayor of Ards and North Down, Carl McClean has condemned Wednesday night’s attack in Bangor on community worker Aaron McMahon by masked men.
Speaking following his attendance at a community rally in support...

Europe

Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson has welcomed the adoption of his novel foods report into law this week.
The new rules which were steered through the European Parliament by Mr Nicholson will allow so-called novel foods,...

General

The Ulster Unionist Party’s South Antrim MLA, Adrian Cochrane-Watson, has condemned the cowardly arson attack which has taken place on the home of a family in Antrim’s Meadow Drive.
Mr Cochrane-Watson said:
“I was absolutely disgusted...

General, Security

Ross Hussey MLA, Ulster Unionist Policing spokesperson, has condemned those who carried out tonight`s gun attack on police officers in the Andersonstown area of west Belfast
Mr Hussey said:
"This was a cowardly attack on officers serving...

Health

Former Ulster Unionist Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has accused Simon Hamilton of ‘unforgivable inaction’ as the number of people on waiting lists has reached almost 400,000.
The South Belfast MLA said:
“This is an outrageous situation. Almost...

Health

The Ulster Unionist Party Health Spokesperson, Jo-Anne Dobson MLA, has expressed her astonishment after the revelation that a record 396,783 people across Northern Ireland are waiting on treatment, a hospital appointment or a diagnostic test....